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Sports, page 12
Overpopulation poses no danger
Viewpoint, page 4
‘Hard Way’
Life I Arts, page 5
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trojan
Volume CXIV, Number 39
University of Southern California
Friday, March 8,1991
Rhythm nation
Diversity course requirement near
DanM Da La Rosa I Dally Troian
Ardis Johnson, staff member at Watts Tower Art Center, concentrated on keeping the beat during the African-American Heritage Festival. Thursday’s event, sponsored by the Department for Black Students, was intended to show heritage appreciation and to inform students of available community services.
Provost Pings has final say on contested move
By Liz Washburn
Staff Writer
The university may be one step away from joining many other schools in requiring students to take a diversity course as part of their general education curriculum.
The Undergraduate Studies Committee, a group made up of faculty members from all divisions and four university students passed a revised proposal for a diversity course requirement in a 13-5 vote on Monday. The proposal will be sent to Provost Cornelius Pings, who will make the final decision on the requirement. Tentatively, the requirement would take effect in fall 1992.
"Each candidate for a bachelor's degree must pass one course in which a substantial portion of course content focuses on human diversity," the proposal said. "To fulfill this requirement, a course must consider issues related to some of the following human differences: age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, social class. The course must examine the significance of human diversity as a basis of conflict and oppression, and as a social resource."
The Undergraduate Studies Committee received the original proposal from the Committee for Undergraduate Education
a month ago and made some changes in it before the approval.
Barrie Thome, a faculty member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, said there were two main changes. They added "language" as a difference, and also added a requirement that the course include at least two of the named differences.
The committee debated the far-reaching implications of the proposal, Thorne said. Richard Eastin, chairman of the committee, said there were two points on which they were divided.
First, the diversity course requirement could increase the number of courses a student is required to take. Proponents of the requirement countered this, saying many current general education courses could fulfill the requirement. The proposal suggests that at least 30 current general education courses meet the requirement.
The second point of controversy concerns whether it is appropriate for a group such as the Undergraduate Studies Committee to impose a diversity requirement, Eastin said.
"The departments should propose their degree requirements, because they are the best equipped to trade off requirements to reach an optimum level," he said.
Eastin said other disciplines not required by all departments, such as mathematics, still need to be considered.
"Living in a diverse society, sensitivity is necessary, but the question is whether it is appropriate to achieve that goal at the expense of another goal," he said.
(See Diversity, page 9)
Alumni honor Zumberge for his leadership
By Liz Washburn
Staff Writer
University President James Zumberge was awarded the first USC Excellence in Leadership Award by the General Alumni Assodation at its annual awards dinner.
The award was established last fall by the association's board of governors to periodically recognize "individuals whose life and work have significantly advanced USC and whose contributions will be felt for generations," said Shari Thorell, vice president of alumni relations.
Zumberge, who became the university's ninth president in 1980, has resigned and will relinquish his position to president-elect Steven Sample on March 30.
In his 10 years as university president, _ Zumberge has
"helped increase the university's presence and influence," said George Scharffenberger, who presented the award.
He said one of Zumberge's primary contributions had been setting "the tone for the university's dealings with the world at large.
"Jim's sense of mission and his ability to define a wider vision of the university's role in the community and in the world at large are the hallmarks of true leadership," Scharffenberger said.
"He has instilled in every member of the Trojan Family a belief that together we can continue to expand USC's active, ongoing partnership with the citizens of Southern California and the world," he said. "A partnership that will shape today's dreams and tomorrow's >«•• .«* 1 (See page 9)
Turner hails CNN coverage
Network prepared early for war, ratings success was the result
By Holly Ziemer
Staff Writer
Cable News Network's ratings success during the Gulf War was the result of hard work and preparation, not just luck, said media magnate Ted Turner before a capacity crowd Wednesday night at Grace Ford Salvatori Hall.
When Allied planes began bombing Baghdad, CNN was the only network with a live broadcast from the city. The network remained in the forefront of television news coverage when CNN reporter Peter Arnett was the only correspondent Iraqi President Saddam Hussein allowed to remain in the country.
Turner, who owns CNN, said he had a premonition before he turned on the television that he would find his network broadcasting from Baghdad. While lamenting • — '- j»n.'f u ■;. '’i
the beginning of the war, he said he knew it was going to be a big night for CNN.
"It's really odd that someone that works so hard for peace, nuclear disarmament, population stabilization and the environment should be profiting from the war," Turner said. "But the money we make from it will be put to good use."
CNN's success was not just luck, Turner said. They had been doing well before the war and prepared far in advance, as they do for all stories, he said.
Before Cable News Network went on the air in 1981, Turner said he had prepared a record — "Nearer My God To Thee" — to play on the air in case a nuclear war broke out.
Turner said he still has the music on tape, just in case.
"Before the beginning, we
Krte Chun / Dally Tro|an
Ted Turner
were thinking about the end," Turner said. "Now that's thinking ahead."
Today, CNN is unique among networks for its worldwide distribution, a point of contention for some and praise among others.
Turner said he got the idea to expand the network's distribution in 1982 when a CNN news crew returned from Cuba and told Turner that Fidel Castro, Cuba's president, (See Turner, page 9)
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One down, one to go
Sports, page 12
Overpopulation poses no danger
Viewpoint, page 4
‘Hard Way’
Life I Arts, page 5
ft tr* IjL* d
trojan
Volume CXIV, Number 39
University of Southern California
Friday, March 8,1991
Rhythm nation
Diversity course requirement near
DanM Da La Rosa I Dally Troian
Ardis Johnson, staff member at Watts Tower Art Center, concentrated on keeping the beat during the African-American Heritage Festival. Thursday’s event, sponsored by the Department for Black Students, was intended to show heritage appreciation and to inform students of available community services.
Provost Pings has final say on contested move
By Liz Washburn
Staff Writer
The university may be one step away from joining many other schools in requiring students to take a diversity course as part of their general education curriculum.
The Undergraduate Studies Committee, a group made up of faculty members from all divisions and four university students passed a revised proposal for a diversity course requirement in a 13-5 vote on Monday. The proposal will be sent to Provost Cornelius Pings, who will make the final decision on the requirement. Tentatively, the requirement would take effect in fall 1992.
"Each candidate for a bachelor's degree must pass one course in which a substantial portion of course content focuses on human diversity," the proposal said. "To fulfill this requirement, a course must consider issues related to some of the following human differences: age, disability, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, social class. The course must examine the significance of human diversity as a basis of conflict and oppression, and as a social resource."
The Undergraduate Studies Committee received the original proposal from the Committee for Undergraduate Education
a month ago and made some changes in it before the approval.
Barrie Thome, a faculty member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, said there were two main changes. They added "language" as a difference, and also added a requirement that the course include at least two of the named differences.
The committee debated the far-reaching implications of the proposal, Thorne said. Richard Eastin, chairman of the committee, said there were two points on which they were divided.
First, the diversity course requirement could increase the number of courses a student is required to take. Proponents of the requirement countered this, saying many current general education courses could fulfill the requirement. The proposal suggests that at least 30 current general education courses meet the requirement.
The second point of controversy concerns whether it is appropriate for a group such as the Undergraduate Studies Committee to impose a diversity requirement, Eastin said.
"The departments should propose their degree requirements, because they are the best equipped to trade off requirements to reach an optimum level," he said.
Eastin said other disciplines not required by all departments, such as mathematics, still need to be considered.
"Living in a diverse society, sensitivity is necessary, but the question is whether it is appropriate to achieve that goal at the expense of another goal," he said.
(See Diversity, page 9)
Alumni honor Zumberge for his leadership
By Liz Washburn
Staff Writer
University President James Zumberge was awarded the first USC Excellence in Leadership Award by the General Alumni Assodation at its annual awards dinner.
The award was established last fall by the association's board of governors to periodically recognize "individuals whose life and work have significantly advanced USC and whose contributions will be felt for generations," said Shari Thorell, vice president of alumni relations.
Zumberge, who became the university's ninth president in 1980, has resigned and will relinquish his position to president-elect Steven Sample on March 30.
In his 10 years as university president, _ Zumberge has
"helped increase the university's presence and influence," said George Scharffenberger, who presented the award.
He said one of Zumberge's primary contributions had been setting "the tone for the university's dealings with the world at large.
"Jim's sense of mission and his ability to define a wider vision of the university's role in the community and in the world at large are the hallmarks of true leadership," Scharffenberger said.
"He has instilled in every member of the Trojan Family a belief that together we can continue to expand USC's active, ongoing partnership with the citizens of Southern California and the world," he said. "A partnership that will shape today's dreams and tomorrow's >«•• .«* 1 (See page 9)
Turner hails CNN coverage
Network prepared early for war, ratings success was the result
By Holly Ziemer
Staff Writer
Cable News Network's ratings success during the Gulf War was the result of hard work and preparation, not just luck, said media magnate Ted Turner before a capacity crowd Wednesday night at Grace Ford Salvatori Hall.
When Allied planes began bombing Baghdad, CNN was the only network with a live broadcast from the city. The network remained in the forefront of television news coverage when CNN reporter Peter Arnett was the only correspondent Iraqi President Saddam Hussein allowed to remain in the country.
Turner, who owns CNN, said he had a premonition before he turned on the television that he would find his network broadcasting from Baghdad. While lamenting • — '- j»n.'f u ■;. '’i
the beginning of the war, he said he knew it was going to be a big night for CNN.
"It's really odd that someone that works so hard for peace, nuclear disarmament, population stabilization and the environment should be profiting from the war," Turner said. "But the money we make from it will be put to good use."
CNN's success was not just luck, Turner said. They had been doing well before the war and prepared far in advance, as they do for all stories, he said.
Before Cable News Network went on the air in 1981, Turner said he had prepared a record — "Nearer My God To Thee" — to play on the air in case a nuclear war broke out.
Turner said he still has the music on tape, just in case.
"Before the beginning, we
Krte Chun / Dally Tro|an
Ted Turner
were thinking about the end," Turner said. "Now that's thinking ahead."
Today, CNN is unique among networks for its worldwide distribution, a point of contention for some and praise among others.
Turner said he got the idea to expand the network's distribution in 1982 when a CNN news crew returned from Cuba and told Turner that Fidel Castro, Cuba's president, (See Turner, page 9)
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